NASA's Mars helicopter flies across planet's surface for the first time
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dailystar.co.uksurface of Mars twice.Scientists, who were struggling to get the software working and had questioned whether they would be able to make the flight at all, made the breakthrough just days later.The US-based space agency spent six years developing Ingenuity, which was carried to the red planet last month on its rover Perseverance.
Originally, NASA aimed to fly “no earlier than” April 11 but software trouble hit the team the night before when a safety system inside the helicopter brought an end to a test of the rotors.Engineers then spent the following week attempting to eliminate the issues and the flight was able to be tested with the first flight taking place at 7.30am GMT on April 19.Ingenuity, a 1.8kg craft, ascended to an altitude of.
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